Title
Mandate for medical service in private schools
Law
Republic Act No. 951
Decision Date
Jun 20, 1953
Private schools, colleges, and universities in the Philippines with a minimum enrollment of 301,000 students are required to provide medical and dental services, overseen by the Bureau of Health, to ensure students have access to necessary healthcare while studying.

Amended title and scope

  • Section 2 amends the title of Republic Act No. 124 to: “An Act to require certain private schools, colleges and universities in the Philippines to provide medical and dental service for pupils and students.”
  • Section 1 applies the medical and dental service requirement to private school, college, or university administrators.
  • Section 1 requires the covered institutions to provide service for pupils and students enrolled therein.
  • Section 1 covers institutions with a total enrollment of at least three hundred and one thousand.

Medical and dental service duty

  • Section 1 requires the principal, director and/or president of a covered private school, college, or university to provide a physician and dentist, either part or full time.
  • Section 1 fixes the effective duty start date for private schools, colleges and universities at July first, nineteen hundred and forty-seven.
  • Section 1 requires the physician and dentist to render medical and dental service to enrolled pupils and students.
  • Section 1 requires the physician and dentist to render quarterly reports of school health activities.

Quarterly reporting requirement

  • Section 1 requires reports at the end of every quarter: end of September, December, March and June of each school year.
  • Section 1 requires quarterly reports to be submitted to the Director of Health.
  • Section 1 directs that quarterly reports cover school health activities.

Supervision by Bureau of Health

  • Section 1 places the physician and dentist under the direct supervision of the Bureau of Health.

Rules and regulations authority

  • Section 1 (amending Section 2 of Republic Act No. 124) requires the Bureau of Health to issue rules and regulations on the medical and dental service.
  • Section 1 (amending Section 2 of Republic Act No. 124) mandates that these rules and regulations govern the medical and dental service that private schools, colleges, and universities in the Philippines must provide.

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